CODEWITHSUNDEEP
androidalgorithmencryptionadmindevice
Maksim Dmitriev
Maksim Dmitriev

Reputation: 6209

Encryption algorithm of Android Device Admin API

Does anybody know what algorithm they use when protecting an encrypted storage? I haven't found any information having read the documentation.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 487

Answers (2)

Yassine
Yassine

Reputation: 36

I have done some online research, and I think I found the part of the Android documentation which describes the encryption implementation of the OS.

The actual encryption used for the filesystem for first release is 128 AES with CBC and ESSIV:SHA256. The master key is encrypted with 128 bit AES via calls to the openssl library.

Source: http://source.android.com/devices/tech/encryption/android_crypto_implementation.html

Upvotes: 2

Deepu
Deepu

Reputation: 7610

Android security usually involves standard and commonly used cryptographic algorithms such as AES, RSA, DSA, and SHA. Additionally, higher level protocols such as SSL and HTTPS are also used to provide security to Android applications.

Upvotes: 1

Related Questions